Most laptops and netbooks on the market come with a Synaptics touchpad built in, but not all computer users are fans of the pointing device. A touchpad might be suitable when performing basic tasks ...

We suggest starting with a simple double-tap in the top-left corner of the touchpad This should work if your laptop has a Synaptics Touchpad. It’s unlocked when the light in the corner of the touchpad ...

Synaptics – who, if you look in your laptop's Device Manager or equivalent, you might find make your touchpad – have announced two new gestures that their hardware supports. ChiralRotate and ...

Synaptics is getting into the keyboard market, and adding a pressure-sensitive touchpad with no buttons, no click, and no thought of blasphemy. Synaptics is getting into the keyboard market, and ...

How you interact with your laptop is about to change forever. Synaptics, the company that develops software and firmware for the clickpads and touchpads found on any number of laptops, has debuted a ...

Synaptics said this week that it is working with Microsoft to bring touchpads with integrated fingerprint sensors to PC hardware makers, making Microsoft’s Windows Hello technology available to more ...

An Intel executive last week suggested it was abnormal to interact with a laptop using input devices like touchpads, but Synaptics is out to debunk that notion by making touchpads more user-friendly.

We spend an awful lot of time in laptop reviews railing against modern trackpads -- you know, the ones that mistake left clicks for right ones, or have a really stiff button mechanism. Well, it looks ...

At some point -- probably when the iPhone 5s came out -- fingerprint sensors became cool. Yes, they've been used on business laptops for years, but it's only recently that we've started to see them in ...

We have more ways of interacting with our devices than ever before: voice, gestures, eye-tracking, as well as simply tapping on keys. Synaptics thinks we need another method: swiping on our spacebar.

Many users who own a laptop or a tablet with a trackpad prefer using an external mouse. The use of this external mouse is undertaken because it boosts productivity. Users are more comfortable and used ...

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